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*ON THE QUESTION OF THE TASKS OF DETACHMENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY.
[October 1905]

The documents printed below represent a plan and sketch of an article or letter on the theme "Tasks of Detachments of the Revolutionary Army."

HOW TO PREPARE AND ORGANIZE AN UPRISING?

"The people are not an army, revolutionaries are not leaders."*) True. But we, in our own way, will create a revolutionary people's army...

1) Work is already beginning everywhere in Russia.
2) Experience: Poland, the Caucasus, the Riga assault²).
3) Cf. No. VI of Iskra³).

Our own revolutionary 
patrols.

A) Detachments of 3—5 persons. Armed themselves, with whatever each can obtain (revolver, knife, bomb, cloth soaked in kerosene).

5) 
Beginning of military operations: murder of police officers,
assault on prisons,
» 
» banks,
destruction of horses 
» 
» police precincts
from the Cossacks
» 
» gendarmes
burning of their barracks
» 
» censorship offices and other
etc. 
institutions.